Scouring bar



Oct. 9, 1956 s. s. ZAGEL 2,765,484

SCOURING BAR Filed 001;. 15, 1952 .Scrrnue/ S. Zage/ INVENTOR.

SCUURING BAR Samuel S. Zagel, Los Angeles, Calif. Application October 13, 1952, Serial No. 314,463 1 Claim. (Cl. IS -104) This invention relates to new and useful improvements in scouring bars and the primary object of the present invention is to provide a scouring bar particularly adapted for use in cleaning and retaining the lip of a toilet bowl in a sanitary condition.

Another important object of the present invention is to provide a scouring bar so constructed as to comfortably fit the hand of a user whereby the bar may be moved about the lip of a toilet bowl without causing the users hand to contact the surface of the lip or the bowl and while permitting cleaning of portions of the lip which were heretofore difficult to reach.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a scouring bar having a concave undercut conforming to the cross-section of a toilet bowl lip so that the bar may be flipped over the lip and moved back and forth thereon to effectively clean the lip.

A still further aim of the present invention is to provied a scouring bar for the lips of toilet bowls that is extremely simple and practical in construction, small and compact in structure, in expensive to manufacture, and otherwise well adapted for the purposes for which the same is intended.

These together with other objects and advantages which will become subsequently apparent reside in the details of construction and operation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a toilet bowl and showing the present invention in use;

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the present invention;

Figure 3 is a front elevational view of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a side elevational view of the present invention;

Figure 5 is a rotated horizontal sectional view taken substantially on the plane of section line 55 of Figure 4.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, wherein for the purpose of illustration, there is disclosed a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the numeral represents the present scouring bar including a relatively solid detergent body member generally Z-shaped in elevation and having forward and rear ends 12 and 14, and fiat side-walls 16 and 18 that lie in planes that incline toward each other as they extend from the rear end of the body member to the forward end thereof, whereby the forward end of the body member will be inwardly tapered to comfortably fit the fingers of a users hand H in a manner presently to be described.

States Patent 0 Bar 10 is formed with a concave undercut or recess 20 which is overhung by the forward tapered end portion 12 of the bar 10. This undercut 20 is shaped to conform to the cross-section of a toilet bowl lip L so that the walls of the undercut 20 will contact the outer periphery of the lip L when the bar is being used for cleaning the lip L.

The upper wall 22 of the bar 10 is convexed and extends between the ends 12 and 14 to be contacted by the palm and first and middle fingers of a users hand. The rear portion of wall 22 is formed with a pair of side-byside elongated, channel-shaped, finger accommodating recesses 24 and 26 that will receive the first and middle fingers of the users hand.

The planes defined by the walls 16 and 18 diverge as they extend downwardly from the wall 22 toward the undercut 20 so that the walls 16 and 18 will form gripping surfaces that will be engaged by the thumb and ring finger of the users hand.

In practical use of the present invention, the bar 10 is held by the users hand as shown in Figure 1 with the wall 22 contacted by the users palm; the bar 10 gripped between the users thumb and ring fingers which extend along side of and contact walls 16, 18; and with the users first and middle fingers positioned in recesses 24, 26. The bar is then slipped over the lip L with the latter engaged with and being contacted by the walls of the concave undercut 20. The bar is moved horizontally about the lip L to quickly clean the lip and as the detergent dissolves it will leave a sanitary bacteria destroying film upon the lip L.

Obviously, any suitable material may be used for forming the bar 10 which is molded to form a relatively solid body member. The material forming the body member will dissolve slowly in water so that the bacteria destroying film will be left upon the lip L.

What is claimed as new is as follows:

A cleansing device comprising a bar of detergent material, said bar being generally angular in outline and including forward and rear ends, a convex upper wall extending between said forward and rear ends, side walls that incline towards each other from said rear end towards said forward end, and a bottom wall which is generally Z-shaped in side elevation, said bottom wall including a fiat rear portion and a concave front portion, said concave front portion being in the form of an undercut which is overhung by said forward end, side-byside finger accommodating recesses in said top wall in overlying relation to said flat rear portion, said bar being grippable between a thumb and ring finger of a users hand with said recesses receiving first and middle fingers of a users hand, said concave front portion being engageable with the surface of a toilet bowl lip.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS D. 51,802 Williams Feb. 19, 1918 268,321 Van Haagen Nov. 28, 1882 2,441,268 Haber May 11, 1948 2,489,639 Haskell Nov. 29, 1949 FOREIGN PATENTS 3,601 Great Britain Mar. 6, 1890 

